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Congrats!

Good luck! Hope you make it even further!

Awesome news!

Ooo, that's good! I hope you win, because your script and story is original. I could have read your screenplay, though.

If you script is the winner. I hope these studios won't make the film, the producers and the directors might fool around with it.

Untrustworthy movie companies:
- Universal Studios
- Sony Pictures (hell no!)
- Tristar
- Pixar (they will make it marketable PG!).
- Disney (these guys won't accept it).
- Paramount Pictures
- MGM

Trustworthy? movie companies:
- Dreamworks
- 20th Century Fox
- Independent film studios (not exactly high on production values and casting though).
- Matt Productions?
- Columbia Pictures

Meh, just my imagination or dream for these rich corporate Hollywood companies to be interested in Camp Lycanthrope.

Great news!

That's great news!!!

Good luck.

Congrats, man! Good luck!

The script has changed dramatically since I let people review it here...It' the same movie but much much shorter, with a few plot changes. nothing major though.

IndianaJones wrote:Untrustworthy movie companies:
- Paramount Pictures

Trustworthy? movie companies:
- Dreamworks

Paramount and Dreamworks are owned by the same company. *points to the "Property of Viacom" stickers on them*

Set wrote:

IndianaJones wrote:Untrustworthy movie companies:
- Paramount Pictures

Trustworthy? movie companies:
- Dreamworks

Paramount and Dreamworks are owned by the same company. *points to the "Property of Viacom" stickers on them*

So that disqualifies both of them because of their nasty owner...I guess.

Anyway, Congratulations, Matt! Re-writes are a b****, but they are worth it in the end.

MattSullivan wrote:The script has changed dramatically since I let people review it here...It' the same movie but much much shorter, with a few plot changes. nothing major though.

Any improvement in quality will be helpful. Good luck, Mr. Sullivan.

rewrites are key. Some of you wouldn't even recognize it after I cut nearly 27 pages out of it.

Ooooh! Exciting news, Matt!

Set wrote:

IndianaJones wrote:Untrustworthy movie companies:
- Paramount Pictures

Trustworthy? movie companies:
- Dreamworks

Paramount and Dreamworks are owned by the same company. *points to the "Property of Viacom" stickers on them*

Yes, but they're managed independent of each other. One company (Paramount) butchers the living crap out of everything to make it as generic and one-size-fits-all as possible, the other (Dreamworks) appears to be founded on a genuine love of the craft.

That's not to say that if Matt went with Dreamworks that Camp Lycanthrope would come out exactly as he'd envisioned it. The difference is that, while Paramount will dissect it, tell you every teeny little thing that's damaging to their market base and turn it into a generic piece of crap, Dreamworks will allow their animators to brainstorm ideas, their voice actors to improv; they'll probably use the script as just a rough outline they can have fun filling in.

So I've been told anyway.

Good news.

Good luck.

27 page cut, cannot imagine that being too easy to do.

That's not to say that if Matt went with Dreamworks that Camp Lycanthrope would come out exactly as he'd envisioned it. The difference is that, while Paramount will dissect it, tell you every teeny little thing that's damaging to their market base and turn it into a generic piece of crap,

That's ASSUMING it gets made in animation...there's always live action with big time fx! And anyway, Dreamworks CAN make awesome animation, just look at Kung Fu panda. It's just they have story issues that rarely get addressed.

At this point, I don't care WHAT studio is interested in it, as long as they want to make a cool werewolf movie and don't demand TOO many changes. But I have to be in the top 10 % of the screenwriting pack before any of that can even be thought about.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope this means you finally can make the movie.

Was it difficult to remove the 27 pages and the changes?

The script to the dog movie i,m (still) involved in has so far been changed 7 times and still only 2 scenes have been filmed. Still they havent agreed on a final script.

From the beginning it was meant to be animated. Now it has changed to live action movie. Still with no fart jokes or such.

Congrats Matt

I always believed in you Matt... Now let us let CL off its chain, and watch it chomp the competition!!!

Semi-final announcements are coming soon. We shall see :}

Fingers crossed; I really hope the momentum contiues; Camp Lycanthrope deserves to get made.

I'd really like to make CL. It's story and look seems to appeal to werewolf fans, and more importantly to NON-werewolf fans.

But let's not forget about Josh Roberts and Hour of Darkness. That has a really good chance of getting made. Josh is very good at procuring contacts, and it wouldn't surprise me if HOD was eventually scooped up by a studio. He can also write like crazy. He's a real idea factory. Currently, he's serving as a sort of consultant on my new script, providing valuable opinions and observations.

Now, cost could be a factor in getting HOD or CL made. Both scripts are fairly big adventures. Writers generally try and sell low budget scripts, hoping to reap massive profits. CL would have a smaller budget than HOD, I think, if nothing else than the fact its set in present day, and most of it takes place in the mountains ( no sets required if it were made in live action, except the cave battle at the end, and that can be fixed with simple green screen and matte paintings. Effects would be the big cost if you want it done right.

But at the moment CL is still considered "animated" I can see doing the film for a smaller animation budget and STILL having it turn out well.

Was it difficult to remove the 27 pages and the changes?

Yes. it was rough. Editing your "baby" and removing scenes you love is exceptionally painful. Hell, 5 pages is hard. 27 was....agony. But the script is a thousand times better now.

I do hope Camp Lycanthrope is being made.

I have an idea, you should create your very own independent animation studios called Matt Productions or Sullivan Productions Inc. in influence with the Pack. As mentioned in my above post. Which can be time-consuming and hard work for it to be established.

But, I never really had a chance to read your early scripts and later scripts of CL before, Matt. I should have joined the Pack earlier before 2007 with my very own personal user name.

Of course its hard to make changes to your lovable Camp Lycanthrope. If you have to edit and take out some parts that can be good hurts your imagination block a bit. But it is still there in your mind, waiting to be shared again in a sequel, if proven highly successful.

Fingers crossed Matt. Hope you make it!
( 27 pages?! Oh my God, that must have been a living hell.)
And ( God forbid ) it doesn't make it, I will run to that studio and show them what a b**** I am as a werewolf.

Like I said, Hope it makes it!!! CL, yeah!!

I have an idea, you should create your very own independent animation studios called Matt Productions or Sullivan Productions Inc. in influence with the Pack

Oh, I'd love to, but I'd have to raise a large amount of money, not only for the studio, but for the film budget. As of this moment, that's not possible.

But, I never really had a chance to read your early scripts and later scripts of CL before, Matt.

Yes, and I'm sorry about that. I'm not handing out any more copies for a few reasons. One, IF a studio wants to make it, I can't have spoilers going around or people leaking the current script. Two, I'd like the film to be something of a surprise to fans. It'll be no fun if they know every little detail about it.

If it doesn't make it, I will run to that studio and show them what a b**** I am as a werewolf.

Thanks Ouka. That's a funny mental image :} But if the script doesn't stand on its own merits, the film wouldn't be made anyway ^-^